DR. ISSACHAROFF ASKED HOW many members agreed with the statements made by Drs. Deutscher and Levenson in their position papers indicating that they did not see the dramatic return of symptoms at the end of the analysis described in the literature. Rather they believed that termination is the result of a process that is determined from the beginning of the analysis by the qualities of the patient and by the analytic relationship. Dr. Field wondered whether the difficulties at the time of termination didn't have something to do with the analyst's style throughout the course of the analysis. For example, Nacht talked about a big shift from neutrality to "presence" and Dr. Deutscher also had referred to this demarcation between one role and another as the analysis proceeded. However, she thought that if the analyst were "present" as a real person from the beginning rather than predominantly as a shadowy transference figure, the termination process would be different, probably less stormy, than that of a more "classically"